Gustaf de Laval
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Karl Gustaf Patrik de Laval was a Swedish engineer and inventor who made important contributions to the design of steam turbines and centrifugal separation machinery for dairy.
de Laval 1875
de Laval's forge in Kloster
Gustaf de Laval at around age 50.
Impulse turbine by Gustaf de Laval. Built in Sweden, 1888. Deutsches Museum, Munich.
Alfa Laval
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Alfa Laval AB is a Swedish company, founded in 1883 by Gustaf de Laval and Oscar Lamm. The company started by providing centrifuges to dairies to be used to separate cream from milk. It now deals in t
Gustaf de Laval
…that the company he founded marketed the first commercially practical milking machine, in 1918. Together with Oscar Lamm, de Laval founded the company Alfa Laval in 1883, which was known as AB Separator until 1963 when the present name was introduced. In 1991, Alfa Laval Agri, a company producing dairy and farming…
Alfa Laval's global HQ in Lund, Sweden
An Alfa Laval decanter centrifuge used in olive oil production in Greece
Old ALFA-LAVAL logo to be put on farms where their equipment was used.
Advertisement from 1899